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July 9, 1940. ELRV. MORANDO 2207548 JACK Filed Aug. 17. 1939 2 Shee ts-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. [manue/ ii. ho e/1J0 5 PAW :4

ATTORNEY.

y 9, 1940- v E. R; MORANDO 2,207,548

JACK

' Filed Aug. 17, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. ['manuef )Ianmoo ATTORNEY.

Patented July 9, 1940 I 2,207,548 I UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE JACK Emanuel R. Morando, Bronx, N. Y. Application August 17,1939, Serial No. 290,560

6 Claims. (Cl. 254-86) This invention relates to improvements in jacks supplying air to the valve; Figure 7 is a view and is particularly directed to jacks for autoshowing one cylinder, of the engine of the motor motive vehicles operated by power from'the mocar, carrying an attachment for obtaining comtor and controlled from the dashboard of the pressed air from the cylinder and being provehicle. vided with a spark plug for firing the cylinder 5 The modem motor car employs tires of large when the engine is operating normally, and Figcross-section and therefore when they get flat, ure 8 is a schematic view showing the pneumatic the axle ofthe car is so close to the ground that connections to the valve. it is very diflicult to get a jack under it. The The motor carlfl in Figure 1 has a telescopic 'iil motorist gets his hands, face, and clothes soiled jack ll secured to its front axle and a telescopic 10 45 vings, in which:

and if the weather is warm, he also becomes jack l2 secured to its rear axle. When the drenched with perspiration. jack H is distended it contacts the pavement According to my invention, the car carries and raises the front wheels l4 and [5 so that under the center of the rear axle, a telescopic they clear the pavement an inch or two. On the i5 jack, preferably inverted and having its base seother hand when the jack I2 is distended, the 16 cured to the axle. Under the center of the front wheels 16 and i1 clear the pavement an inch axle is a second telescopic jack also inverted and or two, which is suflicient to permit the motorist secured to said front' axle. to remove the wheel carrying the flat tire and A valve carried on the dash has a. handle con substitute a spare. 20 veniently located. Aairpressure is led to the One form of telescopic jack is shown in Figures 20 valve, and flexible conduits lead from the valve to' 2 and 3 and consists of a plurality of sections. the front axle jack and to the rear axle jack so The base l8 may have a depression I!) formed that the handle may be thrown in one direction therein, and has grooves 20 to locate straps or to actuate the front jack and in'another direc-' rods securing it to an axle. It also has a countion to actuate the rear jack. When the handle terbored portion threaded to accommodate a cyl= 25 is in its normal position-both jacks have their inder 2| having a bore 22 and a portion 23 of interiors open to the atmosphere so that after use reduced diameter forming a shoulder. A piston the air may escape from either jack and may de- 24 carries a packing ring 25 and forms a workcrease to its minimum length under the urge of ing fit with the bore 22. A cylindric extension pring means th r Y 26 is formed integral with the piston 24, and a 30 The jacks may be so proportioned that they bore 21 has therein a piston 28 also fitted with a raise the wheels clear of the pavement (for exa pa 'r n vA an ular shoulder 29 limits ample one inch clearance). the travel of the piston 28 and prevents it from The air may be obtained fromone of the engine C ng out of the bore 1.

cylinders, and th valve is'so arranged that that hollOW md 3915 formed integral w t e 35 cylinder cannot fire while the'valve is in a posipiston .23 and Carries a Plate e ber 3 The tion other than its. neutral position. The valve hole in the hollow rod 30 extends through the is also provided with a safety valve which wfll Piston 23 and e end of a Spring 32 ssecured relieve very excessive pressures. at the bottom of said hole. The other end of the As stated above, I prefer to secure the jacks spring is secured to the base '8 within the 00111'1- 40 to the axl of the ar i inv rted positions but terbore so that the device will telescope when the I I do not wish tolimit myselfto thi n r do I air pressure is released as will be described.

wish to limit myself to the-exact apparatus A boss 33 carried by the base I8 has a passage which I show by way of example in the draw- 34 leading to the interior of the cylinder 2|, and

. I I a suitable fitting 35 may have one end of a flexible Figure 1 1 i w 1 m .motor car conduit 36 such as, secured thereto by means equipped according to the invention; Figure 2 is of a clamp 31. y

an elevation of a telescopic jack in an inverted One cylinder of the motor carengine 38 ('Figposition for attachment to amotor car axle; Figure 7) may have a fitting 39 screwed into its 5 ure.3 is a view of the jack extended; Figure 4 is usual spark plug hole. The fitting is hollow so a, lateral cross-section of the control valve; Figthat its interior communicates with the interior ure 5 is a longitudinal cross-section of the valve; of the cylinder. The spark plug 40 is. carried at Figure 6 is a view showing a. switch plate assoan angle in the fitting '39 so that its firing points ciated with the valve for cutting of! current flow are as near to the interior of the cylinder as to the spark plug of the compressing cylinder possible, and a fitting 4| has one end of a flexible 5 conduit 42 secured thereto, the other end of which conduit connects to the shank 63 of the valve 48. The shank 45 is connected (Figure 8) by a flexible conduit 46 to the front telescopic jack ll and the shank 41 is connected to the other end of said conduit 48, this being to the rear telescopic jack l2, so that when the handle 56 of the valve is thrown in a position to supply air to the jack H, the front axle is raised, and when the handle is thrown to supply air to the jack l2 the rear axle is jacked up.

0 nition distributor, a second wire 10 leading to the Details of the valve are shown in Figures 4, 5, and 6. The valve has a threaded boss 5! which may extend through the dash 52 and may be secured thereto with lock nuts 53 and 54. The

boss 5| has a bore 55 which communicates with a tapered bore 56 in the body of the valve and a tapered valve member 51 forms a working fit therein.

From the large end of the valve member ex-- tends a shaft 56 to which the handle 50 is secured by a set screw 46. A threaded shank 59 extends from the small end of the valve member, and a hole 60 therein extends to and communicates with the slotted gate 6|. A safety valve 62 is screwed into the end of the shank 59.

The shank 43 has a hole 63 therein communieating with the tapered bore 56 and likewise the shanks and 41 have respectively, holes 64 and 65 communicating with the bore 56, all said holes being adapted to be placed into communication with the gate 6| by the rotation of the handle 50. A bleeder hole 66 is also provided and when the handle 50 is in the off or normal position the holes 64 and 65 communicate with the atmos-- phere via the bleeder hole 66. This permits air to discharge from the jack just previously used so that its spring may cause it to telescope.

Now, in using one of the cylinders of the multicylinder engine as a compressor it is preferable that the spark be shut off from its spark plug. In my system this is done automatically when the handle 56 is moved from its neutral position. A disc 61 of insulation carries a metallic segment 68 having a terminal 69 thereon for connection by a wire 10 to the spark plug 40. The regular wire H leading to the spark plug from the ignition distributor is not disturbed. The disc 61 has a hole [2 which fits on the shank 59, and is prevented from turning by a hole 13 which engages a pin M in the valve body. A nut 15 is screwed on the shank 59 to adjust and maintain the seating of the valve member 51 and to retain the plate 61 on pin HI.v

A contact arm 16 is secured on the shank 59 by a nut 18 locking it against the nut 15, suitable keying means being provided for locating the arm relative to the segment 68, and a finger 11 travels ona circular path and comes in contact with the segment to short the spark plug Ml whenever the arm is turned in either direction'to operate a 'jack. Since the contact arm I6 and the button 11 are made of metal, and the arm 16 is mounted on the meta] shank 59 which is in metallic contact with thedash 52 (via boss 5|), the-segment 68 is connected to ground when contacted by the button 11. Since the spark plug 40 has, in addition to its regular wire H leading from the igsegment 66, the ignition is shortcircuited insofar as the plug 40 is concerned when the valve is turned to either F or R. When the valve is turned to neutral the button TI is moved out of contact with the segment and the spark plug 40 may resume sparking and all the cylinders of the motor operate.

In order to change a tire the following steps are taken:

1start the motor. 2-'-throw the handle 50 to the F" position if a front tire is flat, or to the R position if a rear that cylinder is shorted so that it cannot fire, so

it acts as an air compressor and extends the jack in the manner described, so that the flat may be fixed or the wheel may be removed and a spare substituted.

The handle 50 is then turned to neutral, wheres upon the air may pass out via the bleeder 66, permitting, the spring 32 to collapse or telescope the jack. At the same time the plug 40 is unin the following claims.

I claim: 1. In combination with a motor vehicle, pneumatic jacking means carried on an axle of said 7 vehicle and adapted to be extended vertically downward, an air connection to one of the cylinders of the motor, an air switch for-placing said jacking means into fluid communication with said cylinder through said air connection, a contact arm carried on the movable portion of said air switch andgrounded to said motor, a metallic segment connected to the spark plug on said cylinder and positioned to be contacted by. said arm when said air switch is positioned to establish said fluid communication, whereby ignition current to said plug only is short-.circuited and said cylinder, driven by the other cylinders of the motor, automatically functions as an air compressor to supply air to said jacking means,

and an insulating block carried on said air switch I 3. A jacking device for motor vehicles including in combination with a vehicle having a dash board, a multicylinder gasoline motor, and a relatively fixed under structure; a hollow cylin- 1 der carried by said structure and having therein extensible means adapted to engage the ground for elevating a part of the vehicle, said cylinder having a nipple extending therefrom, spring means normally holding the first means against opening of one of the motor cylinders and having a spark plug receiver, said fitting being hollow extension; a fitting disposed in the spark plug and having a spark plug in the receiver, said plug.

having a wire conductor. for normal operation in the motor ignition circuit; a. nipple on said motor fitting; a control valve fixedly mounted on the rear of the dash and including a turnable element having a front stem, said element having therein a side recess, said valve having at least two nipples, the ducts of the valve nipples being on the plane of said recess: a pipe section connecting said cylinder nipple and one valve nipple, another pipe section connectingfl id motor fitting nipple and the other valve nipple; an I insulating disc carried by the fixed valve mount-l ing and having a conducting segment thereon,

-. 'said segment having another wire leading to said plug, a metal arm carried by said turnable element and having thereon a terminal for selectively engaging said segment; and a handle rigid with said stem in front of the dash, whereby .on

operation of the handle fluid pressure may be transferred from the aforesaid motor cylinder to said Jack cylinder for extending the first mentioned means against the action oi said spring means, said segment and the metal arm being at the same time eflective to open the ignition circuit to said plug while fiuid is being transferred .means normally holding the first means against extension; a fitting disposed in the spark plug opening of one 01' the motor cylinders'and hav -ing a spark plug receiver, said fitting being-hole low and having a spark plug in the receiver, a

nipple on said motor fitting; a control valve fixedly mounted on the rear 01' the dash and'in-' eluding a turnable element having a front stem. said element having therein a side recess, said valve having at least two nipples, the ducts of the valve nipples being on the plane of said recess; a. pipe section connecting said cylinder nipple and one valve nipple, another pipe section connecting said motor fitting nipple and the other valve nipple, and a handle rigid with said stem on the dash, whereby on operation of said handle fluid pressure may be selectively transferred from the motor to said cylinder for extendingthe first mentioned means against the action oi. said spring means. I

5. A fiuld control and ignition control means for vehicles comprising incombination with a jacking cylinder.

vehicle having a gasoline motor, a dash board or fixture, and a cylinder below the vehicle body and having relatively extensible jacking means therein, said cylinder having a nipple projecting j therefrom; a fitting or plug disposed in the spark plug opening of one of the motor cylinders, said fitting being in communication interiorly with the motor cylinder and having in a portion thereoi a spark plug, an interiorly communicating nipple on another portion of said fitting; a control valve fixedly "mounted on the dash and including a turnable element having a stem, said .element having therein a side recess, said valve having 'at least two nipples, the ducts of the valve nipples being on the plane of said recess; a pipe section connecting said cylinder nipple and one valve nipple, another pipe section connecting said motor fitting nipple and the other valve nipple: an insulating disc carried by the fixed portion of said control valve and having a conducting segment thereon, a conductor. extending from said segment to the wiring of the spark plug, a metal arm carried by'sai'd tumable element andhaving a terminal for selectively engaging said segment:

.and a handle rigid with said stem, whereby on operation of the handle fluid pressure may be transferred from the motor cylinder to theiack cylinder for extending said jacking means, the segment of said insulating disc and the metal arm with its terminal being adapted to be effective to open the ignition circuit to the spark plug while the fiu'id is being transferred.

6. In a jacking apparatus for a motor vehicle comprising fluid actuated means including a jacking cylinder having thereon a nipple, a fluid valve control, and means for breaking the ignition circuit of the motor across'the spark plug of one motor cylinder while fluid is being passed therefrom to the jacking cylinder; a fitting in the spark plug opening of said motor cylinder and having in one portion thereof another opening wherein the spark plug is mounted, said "fitting being hollow and communicating interiorly with said motor cylinder, and a nipple on another portion of said fitting, said latter nipple being adapted to be connected with the nipple of the EMANUEL R. momm ol- 

